It’s been a nail biting finish in the race to be the leading sire of Australian winners and it went right down to the wire with Newgate based Capitalist landing two new winners on Friday to take the title.   The Paul Snowden trained 2YO filly Miss Trump scored at Port Macquarie and 3YO filly […]

Greg and Jo Griffin of Lime Country Thoroughbreds know value when they see it and took a punt on well bred three year-old Extreme Choice filly Mimi’s when she was offered at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this year in the Newgate Consignment. They secured the filly for $240,000 and transferred her to the […]

The two year-old full brother to Group winning Golden Slipper place-getter and exciting young sire King’s Gambit was an eye-catcher on Sunday when he scored a stylish debut win. Trained by Lloyd Kennewell, I Am Invincible colt Organised Crime was a short pricedfavourite for the 1000m maiden at Sale off the back of a good […]

Shuttling back to Newgate this spring, Starspangledbanner’s Cox Plate winning son State of Rest (IRE) posted his third winner in Ireland overnight at Gowran Park with a bold front running victory for Sword of State. Trained by Brendan Duke, Sword of State was backing up a week later after making her debut at The Curragh […]

It was two new winners in two days for Wild Ruler when Queen Olympias saluted at the Gold Coast on Saturday following on from a hugely impressive win at Echuca on Friday for Myhro’s Ruler. Trained by Chris Anderson, Queen Olympias was second on debut at Ipswich earlier this month and improved to score a […]

Newgate Farm based Wild Ruler posted his tenth Australian winner at Echuca on Friday with a dazzling six length win for the John McArdle trained gelding Myhro’s Ruler. Resuming from a spell after finishing out of the placings on debut in the Listed MVRC Valley Pearl back in March, Myhro’s Ruler was a short priced […]

The David Payne stable had a winning 2YO double at Canterbury on Wednesday with Russian Revolution filly Krasina following her stablemate Persian Wonder into the winner’s circle. Like Persian Wonder, Krasina was also ridden by Zac Lloyd, who kept her out of trouble one out and one back before allowing her to surge into the […]

Talented three year-old gelding Watson is one of 167 Australian winners this season for Capitalist and racked up his third win this year when saluting at Canterbury on Wednesday for the Waterhouse Bott stable. Fourth to Tempted in the Group III ATC Eskimo Prince Stakes back in February and then a close fifth in the […]

Champion trainer Chris Waller has had a run of promising juvenile winners as we work towards the end of the season and I Am Invincible colt Joint Venture has added his name to the list after overcoming difficulty to win at Rosehill on Saturday in the Newgate/ China Horse Club colours. Third on debut at […]

Joseph O’Brien won a Cox Plate with Starspangledbanner stallion State of Rest (IRE) and he also puts the polish on his super impressive new winner Star of State, who won by daylight at Leopardstown overnight. Second on debut earlier this month, Star of State took plenty of benefit from that outing and was a short […]